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25 trâya mahâmahattaka-thakkura-ári- Vidyadhara-putraya râura(ta)-śri-Rajyadharava[r*]mmanê chamdr-ârkkam yavat13 sasanikṛitya prada(da)ttô matva yathâdîyamânabhagabhôgakara-pravanikara-javalika
dâsyath=êti || ||
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26 mva (mba)li-prabhriti-niyatâniyata-samast-idâyân-âjõâvidhêyîbbûya
Bhavanti châtra ślôkâh H13
Likhitam ch=âdam mahaksha patalika-tha[k]kura-sri-Sripatin= êti H Mamgalara mahâ-śrih
K. Another Bengal Asiatic Society's Copper-Plate Grant of Jayachchandra. The (Vikrama) year 1236.
This inscription also is on a single plate, measuring about 17" by 128", and inscribed on one side only. The edges of it were partly fashioned thicker, and partly raised into rims. The surface of the plate is somewhat worn; but, excepting two or three aksharas in line 16, there is no doubt about the actual reading of any part of the inscription. The ring-hole is in the upper part of the plate. The wire of the ring, which had been cut when the grant came under Mr. Fleet's notice, is not round, as is usually the case, but rectangular, about by; but it is bent into the usual circular shape, about 31" in diameter. It
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
9. 16
[MAY, 1889.
16.
fits rather tightly into a round hole in the bottom part of the usual bell-shaped seal, which is about 3 high. The surface of the seal is circular, about 23" in diameter; and n it, in low relief on a slightly countersunk surface, there are-at the top, a representa. tion of Garuda, exactly as in F. above; across the centre, the legend irimaj-Jayachcha [*]dradevah ; and at the bottom, a sankha-shell.-The average size of the letters is about. The engraving is fairly good; but, as usual, the interiors of some of the letters show marks of the working of the engraver's tool. The letters are rather shallow, and do not shew through at all on the back of the plate, which is thick and substantial. The characters are Någari and the language is Sanskrit. As regards orthography, the inscription closely agrees with the preceding inscription J., so that all the remarks made on the orthography of J. are also here applicable.
This inscription also is one of the Paramabhattáraka, Mahárájádhirája, and Paramésvara, Jayachchandradeva, who records that, when in residence at Randavat on the Ganges, he granted the village of Abhêlavatu, situated in the Jaru[ttha] pattalá (also mentioned in J), together with its five palakas or outlying hamlets Maniari, Gayasada, Vatavana, Asi[a]ma, and [Siri P]ma, to the rauta Rajyadharavarman, the donee of the preceding grants. The date is the same as that of the preceding inscriptions I and J, and this grant also was written by the mahakshapatalika, the Thakkura Sripati.
The localities mentioned in the grant I am unable to identify.
EXTRACTS FROM THE TEXT.1
2rimaj-Jayachchandradevo vijayi 13 Jaru[ttha]-pattalâyâm= Abhêlavatu-grama êtasya pâtaka[m?] Maniart dvitiya-pâtaka[m ?]Gayasada tritiyam Vatavana chaturttha[m?] Asi[a]ma pamchama [m] [Siri?]êtaiḥ pamcha-pâtakaiḥ saha grâma-nivåsino nikhila-janapadân=upagatan-api cha raja-rajñi-yuvaraja-mamtri-purôhita-pratîhâra-sênâpati-bhamdagârik-âkshapa
17 ma
talika-bhishag-naimittik-ântaḥpuri
18 ka-dûta-karituragapattanâkarasthanagôkaladhikari-purushan-âjñâpayati dhô(bô)dhayaty= âdisati cha yatha dhi(vi)ditam asta bhavatam yath-ôpa[ri]-pâtakaiḥ saha likhita-grâmaḥ sa-jala-sthalal sa-lôha-la
12 Read yávach-chhasanikritya.
is Here follow the same verses as in I.
1 From the impression.
2 Up to this, the text of the inscription, excepting some differences of spelling, and the omission of the word irt before Kanyakubj-, is the same as that of the inscription E.
This sign of punctuation, which is superfluous, appears to be struck out already in the original. The aksharas in brackets are very doubtful.
